Frowin is working as a quality manager since 2002. In this function he takes care for about 800 employees located in Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia and China. He is assessor and consultant for the EFQM Excellence Model and CMMI. Many of the projects in Frowin's division are distributed on two or more locations and the successful handling of such projects has become one of Frowin's main areas.
In addition to his quality management job Frowin offers his knowledge and experience as facilitator in the context of organization development activities as well as for project teams. Amongst other things, he concentrates on project retrospectives, kickoff workshops, change management processes, teambuilding activities, claim management trainings, organization and strategy development. Within Siemens he is also known for his facilitation trainings.
2002 he joined the Retrospective Facilitator Community, a worldwide network focused on software project related facilitation, especially Project Retrospectives. In 2005, he became a member of the International Association of Facilitators IAF, and in October 2006 he was the first Austrian and the first Siemens employee to be granted IAF-Certified Professional Facilitator™. His regular international contacts ensure an intercultural knowledge exchange in the field of facilitation beyond the boundaries of the Siemens Group.
Frowin was organization committee member for several Retrospective Facilitator Gatherings in Europe and USA. In connection with a speech at the Conference on Professional Knowledge Management 2005, Germany, he published the paper “Kick-off Workshops and Project Retrospectives – A good learning software organization practice”. 2007 he was invited by IAF Asia to facilitate a workshop at the 10th IAF Asia Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – the workshop was titled “Develop a Timeline – Reflection of Shared Experiences”
I am married and I have a daughter, born 1991.
My favorite hobbies are music and mountain climbing.
I play bass in a rock band and I play guitar just for me or for my friends. Making music is my best medicine against melancholy.
I spend most of my holidays in the mountains of Austria. I like free climbing in lower degrees (< 5) as well as climbing with safety ropes in higher levels (< 8).
To be in the nature gives me the best possibility to relax and get my personal batteries loaded.